Speed regulator



Jan. 9, 1923. A. VASSELLI SPEED REGULATOR.

F1 LEDNJUNE 9. 1919.

Patented Jan. 9, 1923.

UNITE srrs rarer OFFICE.

ANTHONY VASSELLI, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY,ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

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SPEED REGULATOR.

State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Speed- Regulators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to speed regulating posts for talking machines, of the type wherein a rotary element provided withan index finger cooperating with a scale is employed for indicating to the operatorthe position at which the speed regulating brake of a spring motor is set whereby the motor may not run beyond the speed indicated on the scale.

The object of the invention is to provide an effective speed regulator, which will be easy to install, and which will not get out of order. t

A further object of the invention is to provide means of the character herein described, simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and efficient in its purpose, positive in operation, and inexpensive to manufacture.

With these and other obj ects in view to be more fully set forth hereinafter the invention consists in the novel construction, combination of elements, and arrangements of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter described inv the specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings considered together or separately.

The inventive idea involved is capable of receiving a variety of mechanical expres sions, one of which for the purpose of illustrating the invention, is shown in the accompanying drawings.

The invention will be first described in patent statute, I have connection with the accompanying drawings illustrating one embodiment of my invention, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding, parts throughout the several views, and then more specifically defined and indicated in the appended claims.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a plan view;

Fig. 2 isa slde elevation;

Fig. 3 is a similar view at right angles to the position shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 1.;

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Secured to the plate,

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of- Application "filed June 9, 1919. Serial11 1'oh3o2fi66.

Fig. is a section on the line 5 50f Fig.

Fig. 6 1s a section on the line 66 of 11 carrying out my invention, 1 provide anindex plate 1 which is secured to the top of the motor board of a talking machine. as by riveting, is a 2, provided with a short tubular element Within the tubular forked extremity 3.

member is a rotatable stem 4 which carries at its upper enda milled head 5 and an index finger or pointer 6. The fork 3 is onthe oppositeside of the plate 1 from the head and finger.

' The lower end of the stem 4 is enlarged as at 7, and fitting over the enlargement is a tubular member 8, provided with a spiral slot 9. The upper end of the tube 8 has op- 'positely disposed slots 11, 11 in which the fork arms 3, 3 engage and prevent rotation of the tubes. Within the lower end of the tube is secured a plug 12 having a projecting finger 13 which is adapted to engage a slot 14 in one end of a lever 15. The lever 15 is the usual bell crank lever, one arm of which carries a brake shoe for engagement with the friction disc of the well known spring motor governor to arrest the motor when it attains the speed indicated by the pointer on the plate 1, due to the depression of the arm 15 of the lever, due to the downward move ment of the tube 8, due to the rotation of the milled head 5. J

The fork ends 3, 3 engage the slots 11, 11 and prevent rotation of the tube 8 and cause it to be raised and lowered by the rotation of the stem, through the engagement of the pin or screw lOwith the spiral slot 9.

In accordance with the provisions of the described the principle of my invention, together with the apparatus which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof, but I desire it understood that my invention is not limited to the particular form of apparatus herein shown and described, as it is obvious that the particular embodiment herein shown and described is only illustrative of my invenresults, without departing from the splrit of myhinvention.

' avmg now described my invention,- what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. In a speed regulator in combination, a support, a tubular member. carried by said support a second tubular member contacting with the first member and forming a continuation thereof interlockin meansat the adjoining ends of said members permitting relative longitudinal but prey exitingrelative rotary movement of said members, and operating means to regulate the relativelongitudinal movement of said members.

2. In a speed regulator in combination, a support, a tubular member carried by said support, a second tubular member contacting with the first tubular member and forming a continuation thereof, interlockingmeans at the adjoining ends of said tubular members permitting relative longitudinal but preventing relative rotary movementbetiv een said tubular members a cam slot formed Within the second tubular member, and an operating shaft extending within both of said tubular members and means carried by the operating shaft for engaging the cam slot. p

3, In a speed regulator, in combination, a support, a tubular member carried thereby, an operating member rotatably carried in said tubularmember, a second tubularmember carried by said operating member, said lnrged head, said; tubular members being,

substantially of the same external diameter, interengaging means upon said tubular members and said operating member for causing rotation of the latter to produce a straight line movement of said second tubular member including a finger extending longitudinally from said second tubular member into engagement with said first tubular member.

This specification signed and witnessed this 2nd day oil June, 1919.

ANTHONY VASSELLI.

."Vitnesses: 4

JOHN L. Loreen, M. JONES. 

